The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-04

TIE annual report Of the Surgeon -Gs9-
eral of the armv shows a slight increase
of the death rate in tho service over that
Oflast year.
ATTORNEY SEARY, of the Progressive
Labor party in NewSY ork, says he pro
poses to bring action against the city for
damages for the men who were clubbed
Der 6
THE annual report of the Surgeon Gem
eral of the army to the Secretary of War
shows a slight increase in the death rate
in the army. The employment Of twenty
additional assistant surgeons is recon-
mended.
COLONEL GEORGE BRADY arrived at Den.
yer, Col, on the 26bh, with two companies
Of the Eighteenth Infantry. General
Sheridan is expected every day, and will
select a site for the new military post to
be called Post Sheridan.
HEALTH OFFICER SMITH at New 7 FORK has
notified the Marine Hospital Bureau that
the precautions taken with the cases Of
cholera on the Britannia were such that
there is no danger of the disease spread.
ing,
NATIVE chiefs of zululand are organic
ing q rebellion against British authority
over their country.
TIE complications of the French nas
tional administration grow more serious
daily through increasing opposition in the
Chamber of Deputies.
THE health authorities Of New York
claim there is no danger of cholera from
the recently arrived immigrants.
THE Government expended during the
last fiscal year 81, ,095, ,379 for the education
of Indian children.
THE trials of persons charged with
French decoration sales have been set
for November Z. This is the Inaugural
tiOh Of prosecutions in connection with
what is known as the War Office scandal.
THE whole Grow Indian tribe have left
theer farms and are camped in 1argo
! bands along the Big and Little Horn riv-
ers.
A TRUsrY prisoner informed the warden
OF the Ohio penitentiary of a wholesale
| delivery plan in time to prevent it's sue
cess.
IHE New Hampshire House has passed
the bill to create a State board of arbitra.
| tion.
The valuable stallion Altamont died at
the Jewett stock farm at East Aurora, n.
Y, on the 9th, of collie. He was sired by
Altamont, SO, dam by Mambriuo Pilot. He
was never tried for speed, but it was in
tended TO give him trial this season. He
was valued at SIG 900.
On the 9th the first reunion of Ricketts,
/ Battery, commanded by Colonel r. Bruce
Ricketts,, was held at Harrisburg, Pa. The
veterans elected officers and formed a per-
manent organization.
THE Canadian Department of Fisheries
has at last entered upon its scheme for
stocking the Pacific coast with Holsters,
and a specially fitted-up car is on the way
over the Inter Colonial road, where it will
receive a cargo OF live Holsters, and then
start for Vancouver, B. G..
OK the q a delegation representing GER
! tain coal operators in the Lehigh (Pa.)
coal region called at the Executive De-
! partment a Harrisburg. They anticipate
trouble in the coal region where the strike
is now on. The Hungarians are greatly
excited, and many show decided dispo.
sition for mischief.
THE Government of Austria has intro
duced in the Reichsrath a bill to restrict
excessive drinking throughout the empire.
In the sculIin g race for the champion
ship of the United States at Lake Mariana
cook, Me-, on the 28th, Jake Gaudaur, OF
| St Louis, was beaten half mile by John
| Teemer, of McKeesport, Pr.
| a SOCIALIST sensation has come to She
| surface in Switzerland as a sequel to the
! expulsion of prominent German leaders.
| THE Mexican press appears to be
/ alarmed over the aspect of affairs grow
| ing out of the killing of Baldwin, the
! American, in Durango.
THE meetings of unemployed persons
| being held in Trafalgar Square, Lond on,
| have developed into kindergartens for the
| propagation of Henry Georges Lane
| theories.
| EMIGRATION papers to over fifty person,
! coming to the United States to settle hav
( been issued by the American Consul a.
| Ottowa, Ont, during the past few days.
THE French man Of-war Duquesne ar
rived at San Francisco from the Hawaiian
! Islands on tho 2Sth. She carries GOO men
and is the largest French cruiser that
! ever entered San Francisco bay. She viii
remain there fourteen days awaiting or
ders.
| GEORGE WOLFORD, of GeOrgetwOn, ILL.,,
who has been shamefully abusing his wife,
| was taken out by party of neighbOrs on
/ the 2Sth, thoroughly whipped and then
/ turned over to the authorities, charge
| with wife haating.